Advanced Solid Rocket Booster
NASA was planning on replacing the post-Challenger SRBs with a new Advanced Solid Rocket Booster (ASRB) to be built by Aerojet at a new facility, on the location of a canceled Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant, at Yellow Creek, Mississippi. The ASRB would have produced additional thrust in order to increase shuttle payload, so that it could carry modules and construction components to the ISS. The ASRB program was canceled in 1993 in favor of continued use and improvement of the SRB.
Two ASRB casings can be found on the Space Shuttle Pathfinder on display at the United States Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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